With all of the innovations over just the last few years, cars have gone far beyond just seatbelts and airbags. In fact, today’s cars are safer than ever largely because of computers and automated systems running throughout your car. Your Pennsylvania Toyota dealership talks you through the most essential safety equipment.
Seatbelts
The most essential of all safety features, the humble seatbelt is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives every year. The triple-anchored seatbelt is being looked at by several companies for improvements, but that’s a long way off.
Airbags
One of the most changed pieces of safety equipment, the airbag has been given quite a makeover. Intelligent airbags use sensors in the seat and the engine in order to detect the size, weight, and even posture of a passenger and adapt the deployment pressure accordingly. Dual-stage or multi-stage airbags do something similar. These deploy once for central impact and again for residual impact. Add to this curtain, side, knee, and even seatbelt airbags, and you’re safer than you’ve ever been.
Area Alerts
Along with sensors in the car are sensors around the car. Radar and laser detectors can tell you when someone is in your blindspot, when someone is about to cut you off, and when a front collision is about to happen, even if you can’t see it. These alerts are incredibly useful and have drastically decreased accidents.
Automated Stopping
The most recent addition is a system that applies brakes before you can when one of those alerts is triggered. This can mean a rear or frontal collision, but what’s more impressive is that cars armed with these kinds of systems have reached zero fatalities.
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